The Bad-Designs Showcase

This is where you'll find the biggest collection of Bad Design examples from daily life!!!

The Bad Designs were collected over the years from the user submitted entries for the World Usability Day Contests under the name "Boycott Bad Designs".

Nasal Spray

Vinay Kushwaha, Delhi

Here I have shown a very popular medicine to clear nose blockages. Initially these use to come in a glass bottle with dropper. Some time back the company introduced its new design which said now it’s a NASAL SPRAY, I have marked it in red colour also. Also its advertisement used to demonstrate the same. But my mom Is using this for a long time I never found its any use as a spray, she has to lie down on bed and use this the same way as she was using the dropper otrivin.

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2011 - 01.21.

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Cup Holders in Cars

Vinay Kushwaha, Delhi

Here I am showing the interior of Hyundai Santro. Although its provided with cup holders but I find them of no use. In first figure the two cup holders inner diameter is so small that if I keep a big glaas of a soft drink its base just fits in the cup holder and if a speed breaker or a braking is encountered it just fell down, also sometimes it just splits on to the sterio or the inner wires that are coming just below the sterio.

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2011 - 01.21.

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Cassette Case

Vinay Kushwaha, Delhi

Here I have shown an audio cassette in its cover, here most of people face problem that how to put back the cassette in its cover. In above two figures I have inserted the cassette into its cover in two different ways, once on left side once on right. Although in both the cases cassette fits in the cover very nicely but the cover doesn’t closes in the second figure.

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2011 - 01.21.

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Wash Basin Tap

Vinay Kushwaha, Delhi

This is a picture of a wash basin tap. The day it was installed in our house I have wasted so much of water, the problem was that most of the tap opens ANTI-CLOCKWISE but here it was reverse (this use to open in CLOCK-WISE direction) so we use to get confused how to open it and sometimes to close the tap, I use to open it to full.

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2011 - 01.21.

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Glass-Smooth Tap Knob

Snehalakshmi Daggubati

This picture shows the hot water control knob on the bathroom sink in a fancy hotel. You can tell it's a fancy hotel because it has a marble sink and designer knobs. Unfortunately, the designer didn't have people try to turn the knobs with soap on their hands because the knobs are about as smooth as glass and almost impossible to turn. This is an example of something being designed a certain way because it looks good rather than because it works well.

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2011 - 01.21.

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Low Cost Cars

Kiran Kumar Chitikela , Bhimavaram

In Order to make a car available at a very low cost one should take Indian Roads into consideration.Low cost cars consists of low quality Engine and Hardware.Upto 80% of Indian Roads are in bad conditions and with heavy Traffic.Due to this the Engine suffers an immense pressure on it.
 

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2011 - 01.21.

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Kaman Structure

Jayatheja, Hyderabad

This is a kaman near moula ali… the pic is super structure of 2 storeys. the foundation of this structure is deep foundation.(foundations are those which transfer the loads to earth).
1. earlier the road is laid inside the arch and thats the mistake they've made.
2. for some days it worked good and after that cracks appeared on the face of the structure.
reason: the foundation of structure is not able to bear the live loads(vehicles).

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2011 - 01.21.

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Road at Residential Area

Jayatheja, Hyderabad

This is a road near my residence. In my view it is considered as a bad design because:

1.the banking angle is not proper. if rainfall occurs the water gets stagnant . the angle should be such that water on the road does not be stagnant.
2.as it is a residential area ,a sign boards and safety barriers should placed for the covinience of civilians.
3. using poor quality materials like concrete : cement ratio is not proper.the bonding between the cementing materials is not good.

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2011 - 01.21.

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